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Charles
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Posted: June 24 2005,22:16
Auto tag from filename question:

I am trying to write one parsing rule to work for all my MP3s.  I have the MP3s saved as follows:

\<Genre>\<Artist>\<Album> - <Year>\<Title>.mp3

However for many files I do not know the Album name and year so I have them saved as:

\<Genre>\<Artist>\Unknown\<Title>.mp3

The problem is that the parsing rule gets upset that it doesn't find the year on the "Unknown" albums and doesn't get the title.  Is there any way around this problem?
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Magnus Brading
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Posted: June 27 2005,10:18
Sure, you could e.g. run one initial sweep with the "unknown" rule but instead parse out the entire unknown field to the album field instead. Then run a second sweep with a filter to only process files containing a dash ("-") in the album field, and use your first template in this sweep.

You can also record the entire process into a macro to have it all available at the single click of a button.

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